Todays United States Navy

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Originally Posted by LondonFox

Lolol.

Popeye is absolutely correct; this is bovine excrement of the highest order, and I first heard it probably the first week I went to sea in 1979. Like Popeye, it was Enterprise that was the victim of this canard. As a tactical communicator of no mean experience I can tell you that there are so many things wrong with the execution of radio-telephone communications referenced as being an "actual transcript" that I don't know where to begin. Never mind the presence, or lack of same implied, of GPS which would obviate such a situation, "divert" is a word not found in the lexicon of navigational orders such as this. The Canadian lighthouse would identify itself as exactly that, a la "Vessel bearing 125 relative my position, this Pt. Bumfuck Light. You are standing into danger. Alter your course to zero one five true to avoid Bumfuck Shoals, over!" Good God, the absence of the word "over" from the end of every response, to and from the parties in question are enough to prove the lie; but if you don't believe me, here you go.